12/27/15

Outfits on the Daily 12/27/15

Well hello, and welcome to a random Sunday post! I hope you had a nice holiday with loved ones. Mine was pretty quiet, and it certainly made me miss living closer to my extended family. But it did have one bright highlight, a lunch date with some of my longtime favorite blogger friends. I'm planning to share the details of our get together in a separate post next week (sneak peek on Instagram), but since today is the last day of the 50% off sale at Express, I wanted to share my weekly outfit recap since as usual, it consists of a lot of pieces from Express!Outfit Recap:

To view or Pin individual pics of the front-view outfits go to this page.

Fitness Recap:
Here's a look back at the workouts I've done since my last workout recap (here). This past week I moved on to Mesocycle 2 of Cathe's STS series and made several modifications as noted below.

Saturday: Cardio Kickboxing + Martial Arts Class (Local Studio)
Sunday: Dance Class (Local Studio)
Monday: Cathe STS Meso 2 Week 1: Legs (Amazon)
Tuesday: Amy Bento Advanced Step Challenge 4, Combined NRG Mix (Amazon) + Advanced Step Challenge 3 Ab Work Section 1 (Amazon)
Wednesday: Cathe STS Meso 2 Week 1: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps (Amazon)
Thursday: Cathe Lower Body Blast (Amazon)
Friday: Cathe STS Meso 2 Week 1: Back, Biceps (Amazon)
Saturday: Cathe Plyo Hiit Workout 2 (Amazon) + Advanced Step Challenge 3 Ab Work Section 2 (Amazon)Notes and Modifications:
The running time for my Wednesday workout DVD is 65 minutes, and that's longer than I prefer for weights. I cut the chest work in half and also fast forwarded through a portion of the rest sections throughout the workout (e.g. I would skip forward until there were 20 seconds of rest remaining then go from there). Cathe specifically talks about the importance of taking the full one minute rest (during one of the rest segments, naturally), but in the interest of time I just go by how I feel. If I feel rested and ready for another set, I do it. If I feel I need the full minute, then I take it.

On Friday's back workout Cathe did deadlifts, and I skipped those since I had just done them in my Thursday Lower Body blast workout and didn't want to do them two days in a row. On Saturday's ab workout, Amy does some lower back training and I subbed in some weighted crunches on a stability ball instead since I had just worked my back the day prior and didn't want to do it again.

Also, as I mentioned in my equipment breakdown (in this post), I don't have a barbell and plates, so any time Cathe used that in any of the workouts I modified with dumbbells.

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Short and sweet today, but have a great rest of your weekend and thanks for reading!

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I love that red top, especially with the leopard bag. Are you really not going to wear it again until Valentine's Day? Then again, that's only a month and a half away I guess. I hear you about some of the longer workouts. Today, however, I pulled out Body Max 2 and did the whole thing--1 1/2 hours. I had a little extra time this Sunday morning, so I thought I'd use it. I also used heavier weights for the arm segment than I had before and that took it up a notch. Cathe is pretty much amazing.

Hey Gina! The first outfit is my fave, you just reminded me how great red and black look paired together. That particular red is beautiful! BTW I just counted my now growing portofino collection and I'm at 15, how did that happen!? LOL

I'm glad I checked here today! I love your recent outfits Gina. With this cold weather, it's fun to be able to wear things that normally stay in the closet! All of your booties and long cardigans are so cute!

I haven't even shopped any after christmas sales yet, but that's probably good because I'm pretty sure we set spending records for December!! Ha! And I can't wait to read about your blogger lunch recap from your point of view!Carylee | more pieces of me